nursery

You guys. Check out this adorable DIY Toddler House Bed! Right?!?! I’m dying over the cuteness here! In fact, this whole room is simply perfect. I’m so excited to be teaming up with Anya and her husband Topher on this DIY Toddler House Bed project. Anya runs a Florida-based sign shop called Haven Made Designs (follow her on…

Hi friends! I’m hanging out with Sandra at SawdustGirl.com today sharing the DIY house shelf I made out of scrap wood. This was a quick and simple project that I tackled during nap time. Gotta love those free and easy projects, right? I’m sharing the tutorial here, so I’ll see you over there! *Wanna know more about my girl’s Restoration…

Hello and happy hump day, friends! After making several dozen of these custom DIY hand-cut wood name signs for my friends, family, and perfect strangers, I finally made one for my little lady. “The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot,” isn’t that how the saying goes? Or we can go way back with “the cobbler’s children go unshod.”…

*Update: I am now selling these custom wood name signs in my Etsy shop! Remember the handmade wood sign I made for Liam’s nursery? Well, I’ve been pretty busy making a few for friends, and I’ve even started selling them locally! So fun! Lemme tell ya, nothing says ‘sexy’ like a pair of plastic goggles and a…

*Update: I am now selling these custom wood name signs in my Etsy shop! If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, you would have seen this sign I made for Liam’s nursery last weekend. It was the first time I used a jigsaw to cut out anything this intricate, so the sign is far from…

It suddenly occurred to me that I’ve never posted a tour of Evie’s nursery here at the House of Wood. I’ve shared bits and pieces of nursery projects as I’ve completed them, but never a full tour. Evie is now over a year old and it’s been complete since… well, before she was born. Yeah,…

So I’ve been lusting over salon-style gallery walls FOR-EV-ER and I finally got around to creating our very own! I’ll take better pictures soon, but for now, here’s a quick peek of the gallery in our living room: And a more asymmetrical mini-gallery hanging in Evie’s nursery:

Evie is starting to collect enough books and toys that I need extra storage for her nursery. My father-in-law built this bookshelf ages ago and it’s been collecting dust in our garage, so I decided to put it to good use… but not without a quickie facelift first. So, I broke out my trusty power…

There’s an empty space on the wall above Evie’s closet that has been driving me crazy. I can’t help but stare at it as I’m sitting in my glider nursing or reading to Evie. It’s just crying out for something pretty to be hung there. So, naturally, I scoured Pinterest for some “pinspiration.” I decided to DIY…

Happy Labor Day! We spent the holiday weekend being very productive. I feel like I’d been nesting for the past 6 months, but this weekend we really got down to the nitty gritty. We got my car windows tinted so that Eggroll doesn’t fry in the backseat, installed the car seat, Husband bought a new…

I’ve been on the hunt for a mobile for my daughter’s nursery and haven’t had much luck finding a store-bought one I liked, so I decided I’d have to DIY one. I’m sure many of you have seen this DIY bird mobile floating around the interwebs. I, too, fell in love, and downloaded the free pattern (with…

Hi folks! I’m back with another easy peasy DIY project: sew your own crib skirt! Can you believe baby bedding can set you back several hundred dollars? In-sane. Infant bedding sets usually include a fitted crib sheet, crib skirt, and bumper pads. Because we’ve decided to forego the bumper pads due to the controversy surrounding…

I’m a novice seamstress, at best (I didn’t even know how to thread the needle on the sewing machine until just a few days ago), so I was thrilled how my very first sewing project turned out. I bought this cute little owl pillow pattern from Ginia18’s Shop on Etsy and it included photos and easy, step-by-step…

I call this project “Let’s See How Many Ridiculous Nesting Projects Jen Can Complete In One Pregnancy.” I bought these blank clothing dividers from an online supply store (google search: clothing dividers) for $0.29 each and decided that they needed a little cutesy infused into them. So I created a template, found some adorable backgrounds…